This is Extra Time

If someone talks to me about this crap, I’m quite sure he’ll be fed to lions in the Mysore Zoo(if there’re lions in that Zoo.!). Common Entrance Test or The CET, as it is called, is the one exam I hate. Not because I didn’t do well, but because it didn’t let me perform well. This f***** up exam was held on May 8th, I guess. It went on for two days. On the first day, we had Mathematics. There were 60 questions which were supposed to be answered in 70 minutes. As usual, all the questions were flicked from many other sources. I’m sure about that. Unfortunately, I hadn’t seen those sources! The paper was so damn lengthy that I could manage answering only some 35 questions correctly. I simply guessed the rest. Most of my friends did the same.
The second day saw Physics, which was pretty easy. In the afternoon, we had chemistry, which was also easy. This exam doesn’t require any slogging or learning concepts. It just tested our time management skills. I suck at managing time! My performance was ‘Okay-Okay’. Not upto my mark. I was not so impressed. But I’d to accept it!

Only one of my friend managed a very nice rank of 270. I really appreciate his performance. According to me, any rank within 300 or 400 is what I appreciate.

Then there was The seat selection process. I was unhappy to attend it! But I’d to…
Thanks to reservations of seats for all the ‘other’ castes, tribes from the Jungle Book, meat-eating losers, we didn’t have any seats left.
So I had to settle for a mere Biotech seat in PESIT. It is some God-forsaken course which has no future in this Nation. I had no plans of studying this course. I only wanted to change to some other course in a better college. The reason why I chose it is there was no good college available with a decent course at that time. I couldn’t help but choose this.
Then after a month, the Casual vacancy round was held, to fill the vacant seats in various categories. All my hopes fell on this round.
I was hoping for a decent seat, and I got one.
I chose Electrical Engg. in a better and a decent college, which I’m happy about.

This is one of the many questions inside my head, still circling around me, like the eagles flying around a carcass! Honestly, I have very less idea about it. Life was great till some three months back. I was happily talking, hanging around and roaming with my friends. But now, it’s not like that. I’m feeling left out. Not really in a mood to really travel all the way to cinema halls and watch movies! But yeah! I did that just today. I went to watch ‘Kaminey’ with a couple of my best friends! I went only because these two friends were coming!

Why do I feel lonely? There is certainly a reason..
One of the best friends has gone to NITK. The other best friend is in this city, but he’s joined a different college. I don’t know what I’m going to do without them!
Half a year back, it was totally fun with them in BASE!
But not now!(I know it’s sad!)

I’d gone to the movie today with them. It was real fun! I don’t want to comment anything about the movie. It’s total copy of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. I’m envious about Shahid kapoor’s body!

Maybe, I can get back to my normal life. Maybe I reunite with them in an IIT next year. I really look forward to that moment…

I believe there is more to each of us than we could ever know.

I believe there is one Source connecting everything, everywhere, always. It sits not on high, separate, watching passively, as we meander through the parade of choices composing our lives’ stories. Instead it is inextricably intertwined within and around, nearer than our breath, no further than our thoughts.

I believe each and every thing we experience, feel, or think is born of that source. Every powerful spark of inspiration, tinge of emotion, or idea that will ever take shape is created of that place, centered deep within — and connecting — each of us. It is that innate connection we all share that has driven us from wanderers to farmers, thatched-leaf hut villages to expansive cities.

That force within us has guided us as we have fashioned astounding, spectacular, creations that can light the darkness, locate unseen ill-nesses, or further connect us: anywhere, anytime, with the tap of a SEND button. We hurl computerized, complex objects billions of miles across a darkened sky to land with pinpoint accuracy on far-flung worlds so distant that they are invisible to the naked eye — and would have remained unknown if not for others inspired to create by that exact same source we all share. We create because the Universe is in a constant state of creation. Being of it, we do the same.

We have founded treatments for afflictions and ailments from scurvy to smallpox, measles to polio. And someday, it is as sure as we exist that morning will dawn over a world devoid of cancer, AIDs, and Alzheimer’s. We know we will find cures; we are merely in the process of bridging the distance between inspiration and implementation.

When we believe, we do spectacular, astounding things — and will do far more. It is what we do because it is who we are.

Our greatness has names, some known to many: Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, Miguel Hidalgo, Fa-Ngoum, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha. Some are lesser known: you, the store clerk, the daycare worker, and me. Yet, within each is the precise unchanging power that created all who have come before and who will ever be.

Since we are part of the universe, we must be infused with the same stuff that created our rivers, mountains, oceans, and even our Mother Earth. Moreover, beyond that, the same universal force that envelops each of us, at all times, wherever we are, wraps the furthest star in the darkest night. Therefore, when we gaze far into the nighttime sky, we see some of ourselves. We cannot be separated from that which created us; it is denial of what we are, and what we can be.

I believe all this. And because I do, I am convinced that a force so pow-erful, so creative, so expansive to do all this, would never put anyone on this planet doomed to fail, whether her goal may be to change the future of millions or simply to lead a happier life for herself.

I felt we needed to be reminded. I sure do.